Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed yesterday, Thursday, that Moscow refrained from launching attacks on Ukrainian energy facilities in the winter, but was now forced to respond to the attacks that struck Russian energy facilities.
“We have noticed a series of attacks on our energy facilities recently, and we were forced to respond,” Putin said in a meeting with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko.
He stressed that “Russia, based on humanitarian reasons, did not carry out any attacks in the winter,” adding, “I mean that we did not want to leave social institutions, hospitals, etc. without energy supplies, but after a series of attacks on our energy facilities, we were forced to respond.”
The Russian President stressed that the strikes on energy facilities in Ukraine are part of the disarmament process, noting their impact on Ukraine’s defense industry.
He said: “If everything goes back to resolving those issues that we talked about in the first place, and in the energy sector, then it comes within the solution of one of the tasks that we have set for ourselves, which is disarmament. “First of all, we proceed from the fact that we directly influence the defense industry of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex.”
In the same context, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, confirmed that the Russian strikes on the fuel and energy complex in Ukraine are a response to Kiev’s attempts to harm the Russian oil and gas industry.
He said during a session of the UN Security Council: “As for the large-scale strikes launched by high-precision weapons on the facilities of the Ukrainian fuel and energy complex, I say that they are a response to the Kiev regime’s attempts to harm the facilities of the Russian oil, gas and energy industry.”
Last Sunday, Ukrainian forces attacked the dome of the sixth power unit at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, and the plant campus was targeted before that by Ukrainian suicide marches.
The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, also announced that the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was close to a nuclear accident during the Ukrainian forces’ drone attack on April 7.
The Ukrainian army continues to bomb the city of Energodar, and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant area adjacent to the city, on an almost regular basis.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu had previously stated that the Kiev regime seeks to create a threat of a nuclear catastrophe by deliberately continuing to bomb the Zaporozhye station.
Source: RT
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2024-04-12 22:19:41